Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Chancellor Eisen in Haaretz on the New Pew Report: "Reengaging American Jews - Before They Drift Away"

Dear JTS Community,

The most recent report on American Jews from the Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project makes it crystal clear: this is no longer our grandparents' Jewish community—nor, for that matter, that of our parents.

The statistics say that, in the last 10 years, interest in Jewish religion has continued to decline and the number of intermarriages has increased—how should we respond to this information? What do these changes mean to Jewish life as a whole? And what is Judaism anyway? A religion? A people? A culture?